US470690A

US470690A - Stub-holder

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Publication number: US470690A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-03-15
Anticipated expiration: 1909-03-15

Description

' (No Model.) 2 Sheets 8heet 1.

l 0. W.- MARTIN.

SI'UB HOLDER.

No. 470,690. Patented Mar; 15,1892;

(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 2. G. W. MARTIN.

STUB HOLD ER.

No. 470,690. Patented Mar. 15,1892. 1 39.2

NITED STATES ATENT Genres.

CHARLES W. MARTIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

STUB-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0..4'70,690, dated March 15, 1892.

Application filed January 19, 1891- Serial No. 378,261. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. MARTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stub Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in stub-holders for check, draft, and receipt books, and for similar purposes; and the object is to increase the efficiency of the holder and extend its uses.

The improved stub-holder, which is shown and described herein, comprises a frictionplate placed upon the inner side of the front cover of a book and apertured for the passage of a screw passed through the coverof the book and held by means of a nut, and a stubholder which has a base portion to engage the screw, integral coi'ls to permit of the holdingarm being flexed, and a holding-arm provided with a sliding extension, which is adapted to be extended across the folding-line, so as to maintain the stubs from which the coupons have been detached, and alsoto hold the stub while a coupon is being filled up. The arm may be swung so that the stubs are only slightly engaged to permit them to be turned like the leaves of a book for reference or in checking up. This holder is adapted to be used with books of any thickness or any width of stub, and to books both flexibly and stiifly bound.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view showing the holder applied to a check or draft book, a portion of the checks or drafts being removed and the stubs being confined by the holder. Fig. 2 is a plan View. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the holder, showing the stubs in end elevation; and Fig. 4 is a similar View showing by dotted lines the position of the holder when it is thrown back,

' compressing the spring instead of being swung upon its axis to free the stubs.

In the drawings, A represents the back of a check-book, B stubs thereof, and C the checks.

7 Through the cover of the back A is inserted a screw D, having the nut 01 thereon. This nut is passed through an aperture in a friction-plate E, having a raised extension F, under which the rule G may be placed. The holder is made from steel wire and comprises the holder for use with books having stubs of the divided base H, the members of which are separated, so as to bestride the body of the screw and pass beneath the nut thereof, and the latter being turned clamps the base members and prevents their disengagement. The holder has integral spring-coils I, and from the end of these coils spring the base portion of the holding-arm, which projects forward, the members J thereof being held in alignment and in a slightly-separated position by the clasps K, so as to provide a way for the sliding extension L, having the head. M and a sliding stop N. As shown by the full lines in Fig. 1, the extension L is pulled out, so as to hold the stub of the check being filled up on the right-hand page of the book ,while the stubs from which the checks have been previously detached are held upon the opposite cover. To free the holder in order to insert a new stub, the extension will be shoved back into the clasps and then the holding-arm may be swung laterally, the screw serving as an axis therefor, while the integral coils sweep around 011 the surface of the friction-plate; or the holding-arm may be thrown backward, as shown in Fig. 4. By giving the holding-arm the curvature shown in Fig.4 it is adapted to the holding of a large number of stubs without permitting any of them to escape; but obviously the book cannot be closed so tightly as when it is straight. Therefore the arm need not be curved until the exigencies of use require it. The extension N adapts the stubholder to maintain the rule in convenient proximity for use and saves many annoyances to the person using the book.

The holder will be varied in its construction, size, and strength of materials to meet the requirements of use, and it may be adapted to the thickest as well as to the thinnest of books. I prefer to make the head M on the end of the extension, so that if the book is closed without the extension having been previously pushed in the head will be engaged and the extension pushed back without injury to the book. The extension may also be pulled out while the holding-arm is being turned into place, and the extension adapts IO.) varyingwidth.

The provision of the holder with the integral coils renders it efficient with books hav ing either a large or a small number of stubs, and makes the holder equally efficient when the book is nearly exhausted as when it is commenced.

The details of construction may be changed-as, for example, the number of coils maybe increased or diminished and the length of the holding-arm varied. The friction-plate not only prevents wear on the back of the book and breaking thereof, but it also renders the swinging of the arm more easy.

I claim 1. A stub-holder constructed from springwire doubled upon itself to provide two parallel holding-arms and an offset base portion and having at the junction of its base and arms a plurality of integral coils, in combination with suitable means for rotatably connecting said base portion with the cover of a book, substantially as described.

2. A stub-holder comprising, in combination, a base portion having integral springcoils, and a holding-arm, in combination with a friction-plate, and means for rotatably seallel holding-arms, an offset base portion, and

a plurality of integral coils at the-junction of the base and arms, said arms being separated to provide a Way for a sliding extension-arm, said extension-arm being also constructed from wire doubled upon itself to provide a head, and suitable clasps to confine said extension-arm to its ways, substantially as described.

CHARLES Y. MARTIN.

Witnesses:

(J. C. LINTHICUM, FREDERICK C. GOODWIN.